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CARPET SWEBPBR.

No. 388,376. Patented Aug. 2.1, 1888.

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HIRAM W. RU TON, OF GOSHEN, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS TO HENRY A. GORE AND EDWARD W. WALKER, OF SAME PLAGE.

CARPET-SWEEPER.

SPECIFICATION forming pari'. of Letters Patent No. 388,376, dated August- 21, 1888.

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To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that LHIRAM W. RU Torna citizen of the United States, residing at Goshen, in the county of Elkhart and State of Indiana, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in.` Carpet-Sweepers; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whiehit appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to carpet sweepers; and it consists in the construction, novel arrangement, and adaptation of devices, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

The invention will be more fully understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, in Which-#- Figurel isacross-sectional View of asweeper embodying my improvements, and Fig. 2 is a View of one of the springs for holding the dustpans in a closed position.

Referring by letter to the said drawings, A indicates the sweeper-case, which may be of the ordinary construction, having the usual handle-bail, as shown.

B indicates the dust-pans, which are pivoted to the inner side walls of the case, and are held in a closed position by means of the springs C, one end of which is secu red to the said walls of the case, and the opposite end bent to engage the upper rear walls of the pan, so as to bring their forward edges against the under longitudinal edges of the said case. The side walls of the case are provided at suitable points with journal-apertures D, for the passage of the staple or loop-shaped journals E, carrying at their outer ends the drive-wheels F, and the inner ends of these journalrods are loosely connected with levers G. These levers G are pivoted at their lower ends to the side walls of the case A, and their upper ends are connected by means of a spring, H, which in the present will consequently lessen the frictional contact between the rotative brush and the door to be swept.

The brush I have shown is of the ordinary constructiomhaving the fixed disks at opposite 5o ends for contact with the drive-rollers, and is journaled in the metallic bands at the ends of the case.

It will be observed that the journalapertures D are sufficiently large to allow a play 55 of thejournal-rods- It will also be observed from the construction illustrated that when pressure has been applied upon the case A, through the medium of the bailor handle, the' spring-connection between the levers G will 6o yield, allowing their connected ends to separate, thereby allowing the rollers or Wheels to recede and the rotative brush brought more forcibly against the floor, so as to more thor oughly sweep the same. y

Having described my invention, what I claim is- The combination, with thecase haviugjournal apertures, as described, of the levers G, pivoted at their lower ends to the side walls of 7o the case, the Ushape journals E, having their outer ends secured to the drive-wheels and their inner ends secured to the levers E, about midway ofthelength of thelatter,and the spiral spring H, connecting the upper ends of the said 75 pivoted levers and the rotative brush, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HIRAM W. RU TON Witnesses:

HENRY A. GOEE, BURTON PIATT. 

